Brian Brecht
Head Coach · Rutgers
Named head coach in 2011
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Career wins × 17944.8
- Players drafted × 1030
- Final Fours × 125
- Head-coaching seasons × 2222
- Conference regular-season titles × 416
- NCAA tournament wins × 312
- NCAA tournament appearances × 412
- Conference tournament titles × 210
- Win % points above .500 × 4.24.2
How it's scored: the board explains the weights (a national title is 100, a Final Four 25, a Tewaaraton winner 25).
Key numbers
- Career W-L
- 179-151
- D1 head coach · .542
- NCAA appearances
- 4
- NCAA wins
- 3
- Final Fours
- 1
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 4 / 2
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 0
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 10 or more
Every number counts his Division I head-coaching jobs only. — is unknown (not found in the public pages read), never zero. A + means at least that many; * marks a record missing a D1 job or a season. Numbers labeled for his current school don't include his earlier D1 head-coaching jobs.
Career
Postseason by year
- 2022Final Four
- 2021NCAA tournament
- 2011NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2010Conference regular-season title
- 2009NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2007Conference regular-season title
The seasons the pages name. A bio's narrative may not name every season, so this list can be short of his totals above.
Tewaaraton Award
None credited to him as head coach.
Credited to the head coach of the player's school that season. Winners 2001–2026; finalists 2024–2026 only (older finalist lists aren't on the foundation's site).
All-Americans
— USILA's full lists couldn't be read yet, so no All-American is counted for any coach. What his school says is below.
Honors
- 2022 · ECAC Coach of the Year
- 2021 · Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 2016 · Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 2009 · MAAC Coach of the Year
- 2007 · MAAC Coach of the Year
- 2006 · MAAC Coach of the Year
In the school's words
- “36 All-Americans” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://scarletknights.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://scarletknights.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/brian-brecht/6416 · year named head coach, career stops, record, read for career record (not found), record at his school, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_III_institutions · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://scarletknights.com/staff.aspx?staff=343 · record
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_lacrosse_tournament_appearances_by_school · NCAA appearances, NCAA wins, Final Fours
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · title games, championships
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siena_Saints_men%27s_lacrosse · conference titles
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.